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The glorious feast of the Gospel. Or, Christs gracious invitation and royal entertainment of…The glorious feast of the Gospel. Or, Christs gracious invitation and royall entertainment of…
The glorious feast of the Gospel. Or, Christs gracious invitation and royal entertainment of believers. Wherein amongst other things these comfortable doctrines are spiritually handled: Viz. 1. The marriage feast between Christ and his Church. 2. The veil of ignorance and unbelief removed. 3. Christs conquest over death. 4. The wiping away of tears from the faces of Gods people. 5. The taking away of their reproaches. 6. The precious promises of God, and their certain performance. 7. The divine authority of the holy scriptures. 8. The duty and comfort of waiting upon God. / Delivered in divers sermons upon Isai.25 chap.6,7,8,9 verses, by the late reverend, learned and faithful minister of the Gospel, Richard Sibbs, D.D. Master of Katharine-Hall in Cambridge, and preacher at Gray's-Inn, London. Perused by those that were instructed to revise his writings.The glorious feast of the Gospel. Or, Christs gracious invitation and royall entertainment of believers. Wherein amongst other things these comfortable doctrines are spiritually handled: Viz. 1. The marriage feast between Christ and his Church. 2. The vaile of ignorance and unbeliefe removed. 3. Christs conquest over death. 4. The wiping away of teares from the faces of Gods people. 5. The taking away of their reproaches. 6. The precious promises of God, and their certaine performance. 7. The divine authority of the holy scriptures. 8. The duty and comfort of waiting upon God. / Delivered in divers sermons upon Isai.25 chap.6,7,8,9 verses, by the late reverend, learned and faithfull minister of the Gospell, Richard Sibbs, D.D. Master of Katharine-Hall in Cambridge, and preacher at Grayes-Inne, London. Perused by those that were instructed to revise his writings.
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1650
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Our blessed Saviour himself, we never read that he laughed, we have heard that he wept, and for his very enemies, Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem; He shed tears for them that shed his blood. Tears were main evidences of Christs sweetness of disposition; as that he would become man, and a curse, and die for us, and that he would make so much of little children, and call all to him that were weary and heavy laden; that he never refused any that came to him. He that wept specially for the miseries and afflictions; this showed his gracious and sweet disposition: And that in heaven, he is so full of sympathies in glory, that when Paul persecuted the Church, Why dost thou persecute me? So though he is free from passion in heaven,1 he is not free from compassion, from sympathy with his Church. And so every child of God is ready, not only to grieve for his own sins, and the misery that followeth them, but the sins and miseries of others.* Mine eyes gush out with rivers of tears, saith the Prophet David, when he saw that men brake the law of God, whom he loved.
Our blessed Saviour himselfe, we never read that he laughed, wee have heard that he wept, and for his very enemies, Oh Jerusalem, Jerusalem; He shed teares for them that shed his bloud. Teares were maine evidences of Christs sweetnesse of disposition; as that hee would become man, and a curse, and die for us, and that he would make so much of little children, and call all to him that were weary and heavy laden; that hee never refused any that came to him. Hee that wept specially for the miseries and afflictions; this shewed his gracious and sweet disposition: And that in heaven, he is so full of sympathies in glory, that when Paul persecuted the Church, Why dost thou persecute me? So though he is free from passion in heaven,1 he is not free from compassion, from sympathie with his Church. And so every child of God is ready, not onely to grieve for his own sinnes, and the miserie that followeth them, but the sins and miseries of others.* Mine eyes gush out with rivers of teares, saith the Prophet David, when hee saw that men brake the law of God, whom he loved.